Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

We read to know we're not alone.

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.